U. S CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS REVEALS HOW OBASANJO, AGE BABALOLA ALLEGEDLY BRIBED 5 JUDGES WITH ₦30M
U.S. Documents Reveal How Afe Babalola Bribed 5 Judges with $1.125 million. U.S. Documents Reveal Afe Babalola’s Alleged Bribery of Judges for Adamawa Governorship Judgment Revelations from a leaked U.S. government cable have exposed that senior lawyer Afe Babalola allegedly spent at least $1.125 million to bribe five judges at the Court of Appeal in the early 2000s to secure a favorable judgment for his client, then Adamawa Governor Boni Haruna. According to classified U.S. intelligence published by global transparency group Wikileaks, Mr. Babalola bribed a panel of five appellate judges, led by Justice Pius Olayiwola Aderemi, with $225,000 each to reinstate Mr. Haruna after an election petitions tribunal had sacked him on grounds of electoral malpractice. The document cited a senior lawyer’s account of how he accompanied Mr. Babalola to deliver tens of millions of naira to appellate jurists to secure their preferred ruling. Mr. Babalola, 95, had a reput...